North Korea raises stakes with seizure of South Korean trawler and crew

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The seething animosity in the Korean peninsula was raised another notch
yesterday after a South Korean fishing boat and its crew of seven were
seized and towed to a North Korean port.

The trawler was captured by a patrol boat while operating near — or possibly
just inside — waters shared exclusively by North Korea and Russia.

The zone lies off Korea’s east coast, where valuable fishing rights have long
been a source of tension across the world’s last remaining Cold War border.
The seized vessel was manned by four South Koreans and three Chinese, who,
according to the South Korean coastguard,